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wished to consult, and received for 

 answer, " That he never allowed 

 his books to go out of his room, 

 but that, if he chose to come there, 

 he was welcome to read as long as 

 he pleased." Some days afterwards 

 this pedant applied to Masson for 

 the loan of his bellows, who replied, 

 " That he never allowed his bel- 

 lows to go out of his room, but that, 

 if he chose to come there, he was 

 welcome to blow as long as he 

 pleased." 



BURTON, AUTHOR OF THE "ANATOMY 

 OF MELANCHOLY." 



In 1599, he was elected student 

 of Christ Church, and "for form 

 sake," says Wood, "though he 

 wanted not a tutor, he was put 

 under the, tuition of Dr. John Ban- 

 croft, after Bishop of Oxon. In 

 1614, he Avas admitted to the read- 

 ing of the sentences, and on the 

 29th of Nov., 1616, he had the 

 vicaridge of St. Thomas parish, in 

 the west suburb of Oxon, conferred 

 on him by the dean and canons of 

 Christ Church (to the parishioners 

 whereof he always gave the sacra- 

 ment in wafers), which, with the 

 rectory of Segrave, in Leicester- 

 shire, given to him some years 

 after by George Lord Berkeley, he 

 kept with much ado to his dying 

 day. He was an exact mathema- 

 tician, a curious calculator of na- 

 tivities, a general read scholar, a 

 through-paced philologist, and one 

 that understood the surveying of 

 lands well. As he was by many 

 accounted a severe student, a de- 

 vourer of authors, a melancholy 

 and humorous person ; so by 

 others, who knew him well, a per- 

 son of great honesty, plain-dealing, 

 and charity. I have heard some of 

 the autients of Ch. Ch. often say 

 that his company was very merry, 

 facete, and juvenile, and no man in 

 his time did surpass him for his 

 ready and dextrous interlarding 

 his common discourses amonir them 



with verses from the poets, or sen- 

 tences from classical authors, which 

 being then all the fashion in the 

 university, made his company more 

 acceptable." He died in 1639. 

 Oxoniana. 



DR. BAIXBRIDGE. 



Dr. Walter Pope, in his life of 

 Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury, 

 speaking of the Doctor, says, " This 

 was the same Dr. Bainbridge who 

 was afterwards Saviliau professor 

 of astronomy at Oxford, a learned 

 and good mathematician ; yet there 

 goes a story of him which was in 

 many scholars' mouths, when I was 

 first admitted there, that he put 

 upon the school-gate an affiche, or 

 written paper, as the custom is, 

 giving notice at what time, and 

 upon what subject, the professor 

 will read, which ended in these 

 words, lecturus de polis et axis, 

 under which was written by an un- 

 known hand as follows : 



Doctor B.iinbridgo 

 Came from Cambridge, 



To read de polls ct axis : 

 Let him go back again, 

 Like a dunce as he came, 



And learn a new syntaxis." 



He died in the year 1643. 



CHILLINGWORTH. 



" Air. Chillingworth," says Bishop 

 Hare, "is certainly a good reasoner, 

 and may be read with much advan- 

 tage : but I fear the reading of him 

 by young divines hath had one 

 great inconvenience. They see lit- 

 tle show of reading in him, and 

 from thence are induced to think, 

 there is no necessity of learning, to 

 make a good diviue ; nay, that if he 

 had been more a scholar, he had 

 been a worse reasoner ; and there- 

 fore not to study the ancient writers 

 of the church, is one step to the 

 being Chillingworths themselves : I 

 fear, I say, the reading Mr. Chil- 

 lingworth in their first years has 

 had this influence, to make them 



